Dan Roy Henry Jr.

So we immediately had a conflict.

Clearly we knew we needed to have counsel, but I needed a really good local attorney who would push hard to get at truth.

The Henrys hired Michael Sussman, a legendary civil rights attorney from New York.

And I remember in that first meeting, Dan Wright looking at me and saying to me, I don't want to make this about race.

I don't want that to be the narrative.

I want to understand the details of why it happened.

Officer Hess, his knee badly injured, was also taken to the hospital that night.

And soon he too had a lawyer of his own.

He doesn't see himself as some kind of hero.

Aaron Hess is a victim.

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In the months after DJ's death, as his family grieved, the Westchester District Attorney's Office began an investigation, standard procedure at the time.

In January of 2011, they convened a grand jury to see if Officer Hess should be charged with any crime.

DJ's father, Dan Roy, was called to testify.

The only questions I was asked two weeks before the grand jury wrapped up was, did I know that DJ drank occasionally?